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Notice of Availability of Final
Environmental Impact Statement for
the AREVA Enrichment Services LLC
Proposed Eagle Rock Enrichment
Facility in Bonneville County, ID
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of Availability of Final
Environmental Impact Statement.
AGENCY:
Notice is hereby given that
the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) has published the
Final Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS) for the AREVA Enrichment
Services LLC (AES) Proposed Eagle
Rock Enrichment Facility (EREF). On
December 30, 2008, AES submitted a
license application to the NRC that
proposes the construction, operation,
and decommissioning of a gas
centrifuge-based uranium enrichment
facility on a presently undeveloped site
near Idaho Falls in Bonneville County,
Idaho (the ‘‘proposed action’’). This
application is for a license to possess
and use byproduct material, source
material, and special nuclear material at
the proposed uranium enrichment
facility. The application included an
Environmental Report (ER) regarding
the proposed action.
AES subsequently submitted revisions
to the license application on April 23,
2009 (Revision 1), and April 30, 2010
(Revision 2), which included ER
Revision 1 and ER Revision 2,
respectively. License application
Revision 1 addresses the expansion of
the proposed EREF to increase its
production capacity from 3.3 million
Separative Work Units (SWUs) per year
to 6.6 million SWUs per year; and ER
Revision 1 includes information on the
environmental impacts of the proposed
6.6-million-SWU-per-year EREF.
Revision 2 to the license application
and the ER incorporates into Revision 1
additional information that AES
previously provided the NRC in
response to NRC staff requests for
additional information for its safety and
environmental reviews, as well as
supplemental information on a
proposed electrical transmission line
required to power the proposed EREF.
On June 17, 2009, AES submitted a
request for an exemption from certain
NRC regulations so that it could
commence certain preconstruction
activities (e.g., site preparation) on the
proposed EREF site prior to the NRC’s
decision on whether to grant or deny a
license. On March 17, 2010, the NRC
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granted an exemption authorizing AES
to conduct the requested
preconstruction activities.
The Final EIS is being issued as part
of the NRC’s process to decide whether
to issue a license to AES, pursuant to
Title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR) parts 30, 40, and
70, to construct and operate the
proposed uranium enrichment facility.
Specifically, AES proposes to use gas
centrifuge technology to enrich the
uranium-235 isotope found in natural
uranium to concentrations up to 5
percent by weight. The enriched
uranium would be used to manufacture
nuclear fuel for commercial nuclear
power reactors. In the Final EIS, the
NRC staff assessed the potential
environmental impacts from the
preconstruction, construction,
operation, and decommissioning of the
proposed EREF project.
The Final EIS was prepared in
compliance with the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as
amended (NEPA), and the NRC’s
regulations for implementing NEPA in
10 CFR part 51. The NRC staff assessed
the impacts of the proposed action on
land use, historic and cultural
resources, visual and scenic resources,
air quality, geology and soils, water
resources, ecological resources, noise,
transportation, public and occupational
health, waste management,
socioeconomics, and environmental
justice. Additionally, the NRC staff
analyzed and compared the benefits and
costs of the proposed action. In
preparing this Final EIS, the NRC staff
also reviewed, considered, evaluated,
and addressed the public comments
received on the Draft EIS.
In addition to the proposed action, the
NRC staff considered the no-action
alternative and other alternatives. Under
the no-action alternative, the NRC
would deny AES’s request to construct
and operate a uranium enrichment
facility at the EREF site. The no-action
alternative serves as a baseline for
comparison of the potential
environmental impacts of the proposed
action. Other alternatives the NRC staff
considered but eliminated from further
analysis include: (1) Alternative sites for
the EREF; (2) alternative sources of
enriched uranium; and (3) alternative
technologies for uranium enrichment.
These alternatives were eliminated from
further analysis due to economic,
environmental, national security,
technological maturity, or other reasons.
The Final EIS also discusses alternatives
for the disposition of depleted uranium
hexafluoride (UF6) resulting from
enrichment operations over the lifetime
of the proposed EREF.
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After weighing the impacts, costs, and
benefits of the proposed action and
comparing alternatives, the NRC staff, in
accordance with 10 CFR 51.91(d), sets
forth its recommendation regarding the
proposed action. The NRC staff
recommends that, unless safety issues
mandate otherwise, the proposed action
should be approved (i.e., NRC should
issue a license). In this regard, the NRC
staff has concluded that the
environmental impacts of the proposed
action are generally small, and that
implementation of the proposed AES
environmental monitoring program and
AES mitigation measures discussed in
the Final EIS would eliminate or
substantially lessen any adverse
environmental impacts associated with
the proposed action.
Document Availability: The Final EIS
and other publicly available documents
related to this notice can be accessed
using any of the methods described in
this section. Because one appendix of
the Final EIS contains Sensitive
Unclassified Non-Safeguards
Information (SUNSI), this appendix has
been withheld from public inspection in
accordance with 10 CFR 2.390,
‘‘Availability of Public Records.’’ This
appendix contains proprietary business
information as well as security-related
information. The NRC staff has
considered the information in this
appendix in forming the conclusions
presented in the EIS. Procedures for
obtaining access to SUNSI were
previously published in the NRC’s
Notice of Hearing and Commission
Order related to AES’s application for
the EREF. Notice of Receipt of
Application for License; Notice of
Consideration of Issuance of License;
Notice of Hearing and Commission
Order and Order Imposing Procedures
for Access to Sensitive Unclassified
Non-Safeguards Information and
Safeguards Information for Contention
Preparation; In the Matter of Areva
Enrichment Services, LLC (Eagle Rock
Enrichment Facility), 74 FR. 38052 (July
30, 2009).
NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR):
The public may examine and have
copied, for a fee, publicly available
documents related to the EREF project
at the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike
(first floor), Rockville, Maryland 20852.
Members of the public can contact the
NRC’s PDR reference staff by calling 1–
800–397–4209, by faxing a request to
301–415–3548, or by e-mail to
pdr.resource@nrc.gov.
NRC Web sites: Documents related to
this notice are available on the NRC’s
AREVA Enrichment Services, LLC Gas
Centrifuge Facility website at https://
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www.nrc.gov/materials/fuel-cycle-fac/
arevanc.html. The Final EIS for the
proposed EREF may also be accessed on
the internet at https://www.nrc.gov/
reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/
by selecting ‘‘NUREG–1945.’’
NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access
and Management System (ADAMS):
Members of the public can access the
NRC’s ADAMS at https://www.nrc.gov/
reading-rm/adams.html. From this Web
site, enter the ADAMS Accession
Numbers included here for AES’s
license application and ER Revision 2
(ADAMS Accession Number:
ML101610549), the exemption
authorizing certain preconstruction
activities (ADAMS Accession Number:
ML093220446), and NRC’s Final EIS
(ADAMS Accession Numbers:
ML11014A005 [Volume 1] and
ML11014A006 [Volume 2]).
Federal rulemaking Web site:
Materials related to this notice can be
found at https://www.regulations.gov by
searching on Docket ID: NRC–2009–
0187.
Public Library: A copy of the Final EIS
will be available at the Idaho Falls
Public Library, 457 West Broadway,
Idaho Falls, ID 83402, 208–612–8460.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
information about the Final EIS or the
environmental review process, please
contact Stephen Lemont at 301–415–
5163 or Stephen.Lemont@nrc.gov. For
general or technical information
associated with the licensing process as
it relates to the EREF application, please
contact Breeda Reilly at 301–492–3110
or Breeda.Reilly@nrc.gov.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10th day
of February, 2011.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrew Persinko,
Deputy Director, Environmental Protection
and Performance Assessment Directorate,
Division of Waste Management and
Environmental Protection, Office of Federal
and State Materials and Environmental
Management Programs.
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Notice of Availability of Final Environmental Impact Statement
for the AREVA Enrichment Services LLC Proposed Eagle Rock Enrichment
Facility in Bonneville County, ID
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of Availability of Final Environmental Impact Statement.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) has published the Final Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS) for the AREVA Enrichment Services LLC (AES) Proposed Eagle Rock
Enrichment Facility (EREF). On December 30, 2008, AES submitted a
license application to the NRC that proposes the construction,
operation, and decommissioning of a gas centrifuge-based uranium
enrichment facility on a presently undeveloped site near Idaho Falls in
Bonneville County, Idaho (the ``proposed action''). This application is
for a license to possess and use byproduct material, source material,
and special nuclear material at the proposed uranium enrichment
facility. The application included an Environmental Report (ER)
regarding the proposed action.
AES subsequently submitted revisions to the license application on
April 23, 2009 (Revision 1), and April 30, 2010 (Revision 2), which
included ER Revision 1 and ER Revision 2, respectively. License
application Revision 1 addresses the expansion of the proposed EREF to
increase its production capacity from 3.3 million Separative Work Units
(SWUs) per year to 6.6 million SWUs per year; and ER Revision 1
includes information on the environmental impacts of the proposed 6.6-
million-SWU-per-year EREF. Revision 2 to the license application and
the ER incorporates into Revision 1 additional information that AES
previously provided the NRC in response to NRC staff requests for
additional information for its safety and environmental reviews, as
well as supplemental information on a proposed electrical transmission
line required to power the proposed EREF.
On June 17, 2009, AES submitted a request for an exemption from
certain NRC regulations so that it could commence certain
preconstruction activities (e.g., site preparation) on the proposed
EREF site prior to the NRC's decision on whether to grant or deny a
license. On March 17, 2010, the NRC granted an exemption authorizing
AES to conduct the requested preconstruction activities.
The Final EIS is being issued as part of the NRC's process to
decide whether to issue a license to AES, pursuant to Title 10 of the
Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) parts 30, 40, and 70, to construct
and operate the proposed uranium enrichment facility. Specifically, AES
proposes to use gas centrifuge technology to enrich the uranium-235
isotope found in natural uranium to concentrations up to 5 percent by
weight. The enriched uranium would be used to manufacture nuclear fuel
for commercial nuclear power reactors. In the Final EIS, the NRC staff
assessed the potential environmental impacts from the preconstruction,
construction, operation, and decommissioning of the proposed EREF
project.
The Final EIS was prepared in compliance with the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA), and the NRC's
regulations for implementing NEPA in 10 CFR part 51. The NRC staff
assessed the impacts of the proposed action on land use, historic and
cultural resources, visual and scenic resources, air quality, geology
and soils, water resources, ecological resources, noise,
transportation, public and occupational health, waste management,
socioeconomics, and environmental justice. Additionally, the NRC staff
analyzed and compared the benefits and costs of the proposed action. In
preparing this Final EIS, the NRC staff also reviewed, considered,
evaluated, and addressed the public comments received on the Draft EIS.
In addition to the proposed action, the NRC staff considered the
no-action alternative and other alternatives. Under the no-action
alternative, the NRC would deny AES's request to construct and operate
a uranium enrichment facility at the EREF site. The no-action
alternative serves as a baseline for comparison of the potential
environmental impacts of the proposed action. Other alternatives the
NRC staff considered but eliminated from further analysis include: (1)
Alternative sites for the EREF; (2) alternative sources of enriched
uranium; and (3) alternative technologies for uranium enrichment. These
alternatives were eliminated from further analysis due to economic,
environmental, national security, technological maturity, or other
reasons. The Final EIS also discusses alternatives for the disposition
of depleted uranium hexafluoride (UF6) resulting from
enrichment operations over the lifetime of the proposed EREF.
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After weighing the impacts, costs, and benefits of the proposed
action and comparing alternatives, the NRC staff, in accordance with 10
CFR 51.91(d), sets forth its recommendation regarding the proposed
action. The NRC staff recommends that, unless safety issues mandate
otherwise, the proposed action should be approved (i.e., NRC should
issue a license). In this regard, the NRC staff has concluded that the
environmental impacts of the proposed action are generally small, and
that implementation of the proposed AES environmental monitoring
program and AES mitigation measures discussed in the Final EIS would
eliminate or substantially lessen any adverse environmental impacts
associated with the proposed action.
Document Availability: The Final EIS and other publicly available
documents related to this notice can be accessed using any of the
methods described in this section. Because one appendix of the Final
EIS contains Sensitive Unclassified Non-Safeguards Information (SUNSI),
this appendix has been withheld from public inspection in accordance
with 10 CFR 2.390, ``Availability of Public Records.'' This appendix
contains proprietary business information as well as security-related
information. The NRC staff has considered the information in this
appendix in forming the conclusions presented in the EIS. Procedures
for obtaining access to SUNSI were previously published in the NRC's
Notice of Hearing and Commission Order related to AES's application for
the EREF. Notice of Receipt of Application for License; Notice of
Consideration of Issuance of License; Notice of Hearing and Commission
Order and Order Imposing Procedures for Access to Sensitive
Unclassified Non-Safeguards Information and Safeguards Information for
Contention Preparation; In the Matter of Areva Enrichment Services, LLC
(Eagle Rock Enrichment Facility), 74 FR. 38052 (July 30, 2009).
NRC's Public Document Room (PDR): The public may examine and have
copied, for a fee, publicly available documents related to the EREF
project at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555
Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland 20852. Members of the
public can contact the NRC's PDR reference staff by calling 1-800-397-
4209, by faxing a request to 301-415-3548, or by e-mail to
pdr.resource@nrc.gov.
NRC Web sites: Documents related to this notice are available on
the NRC's AREVA Enrichment Services, LLC Gas Centrifuge Facility
website at https://www.nrc.gov/materials/fuel-cycle-fac/arevanc.html.
The Final EIS for the proposed EREF may also be accessed on the
internet at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/
by selecting ``NUREG-1945.''
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS):
Members of the public can access the NRC's ADAMS at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. From this Web site, enter the ADAMS Accession
Numbers included here for AES's license application and ER Revision 2
(ADAMS Accession Number: ML101610549), the exemption authorizing
certain preconstruction activities (ADAMS Accession Number:
ML093220446), and NRC's Final EIS (ADAMS Accession Numbers: ML11014A005
[Volume 1] and ML11014A006 [Volume 2]).
Federal rulemaking Web site: Materials related to this notice can
be found at https://www.regulations.gov by searching on Docket ID: NRC-
2009-0187.
Public Library: A copy of the Final EIS will be available at the
Idaho Falls Public Library, 457 West Broadway, Idaho Falls, ID 83402,
208-612-8460.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information about the Final EIS or
the environmental review process, please contact Stephen Lemont at 301-
415-5163 or Stephen.Lemont@nrc.gov. For general or technical
information associated with the licensing process as it relates to the
EREF application, please contact Breeda Reilly at 301-492-3110 or
Breeda.Reilly@nrc.gov.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10th day of February, 2011.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrew Persinko,
Deputy Director, Environmental Protection and Performance Assessment
Directorate, Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection,
Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management
Programs.
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